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Grace Kingsley, Los Angeles Times, L. A., Calif., Oct. 22, 1917.
The Adventurer Scenes
& G. Haven Bishop (photographer), Garrick Theater,
exterior by night, Los Angeles, October 1913,
Southern California Edison Company, Huntington Library, detail
& Show World Reviews.
VERY FUNNY FARCES.
„NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH“ AND „IT PAYS
TO ADVERTISE.“ (...)
and Charlie Chaplin is knocking ‘em dead at the Garrick
in his greatest comedy, „The Adventurer.“
(...I Grace Kingsley, Los Angeles Times, Oct. 25, 1917
„Their glorious expectations were all fulfilled yesterday“
Editorial content. „Garrick.
Anxiously have the fans awaited the coming of Charlie
Chaplin to the Garrick in his latest picture, The
Adventurer. And their glorious expectations were all fulfilled
yesterday.
Just being a convict doesn‘t of itself suggest anything
funny. But Chaplin has made of the stripes a garb
of glee, wherein his antics are more of the brain and less of
the feet than in any previous picture, with the result
every little movement has a joyous meaning all its owns.
„And the story starts just as soon as the picture
does,“ naively exclaimed a girl sitting behind me. In other words,
Charlie pokes his head out of the sand to look right
into the barrel of the guard‘s gun. The film runs only half an
hour, but there are more clever bits of business to
the square inch than in any comedy that has been shown
in many a day. When the convict‘s picture appears
in the paper, for instance, and Charlie‘s hated rival in the home
pf the girl he has rescued from drowning sees it and
is about to squeal to papa, does Charlie run away on his funny
feet? He does not. He grabs that paper and paints
whiskers on the convict‘s face that are exactly like his rival‘s
whiskers. Then when the guards discover him, and
his rival is after him, he manages to get his enemy‘s whiskers
caught in the folding doors, he manacles his hands
on the other side, and whenever anybody thereafter wants to go through that door, the hated rival has to manipulate
it with his head.
If you want to laugh until the laughs tumble over
each other in their eagerness to let yet other
laughs escape, be sure and see The Adventurer.
An O. Henry story of mildly entertaining
quality completes the bill.“
Garrick Theatre, Broadway at Eighth Street, Los Angeles.
The Adventurer is
released by Mutual October 22, 1917.
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